Month: February 2023
Containers finally cross chasm of mainstream adoption
Containers as a software artifact used in applications may have finally crossed the proverbial chasm of adoption. A report published by JFrog, a provider of a platforms for building and deploying applications, based on analysis of how more than 7,000...
Pioneers in Tech: Roy L. Clay, the black godfather of Silicon Valley
The technology chapter of any Black history textbook would have to start with the life story of this week’s “Pioneers in Tech”, Roy L. Clay. After, he has more than earned the moniker the “Black Godfather of Silicon Valley.”
The real cost of a major email-borne attack
A new international study highlights the significant financial cost and disruption caused by an email-based security attack. Three-quarters (75%) of the organizations surveyed for the 2023 Email Trends Report say they have fallen victim to at least one successful email attack in...
Malvertising makes a comeback
Malvertising is nothing new. But often times for hackers, what’s old is new again. “Cybersecurity is like a game of whack-a-mole, you punch one threat down, and it pops up someplace else later,” says Max Jennings, a cybersecurity expert in...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: OneNote malware delivery
Multiple threat actors are now using OneNote documents to deliver malware. In the last month alone, over 50 OneNote campaigns delivering different malware payloads through email attachments have been observed.
Insights for 2023 from Barracuda’s CRN Channel Chiefs
Yesterday, CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, announced its 2023 Channel Chiefs list. Every year, this list honors the IT channel executives who work tirelessly to advance the channel agenda and deliver successful channel partner programs and strategies, and two...
Cybersecurity tops IT spending priority list for 2023
A survey of 837 IT leaders and 201 line of business (LOB) executives conducted by the market research form Foundry, a unit of International Data Group (IDG), finds 91 percent of CIOs expect their technology budgets to either increase or...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Atlassian critical remote code execution vulnerability
A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the Jira Service Management Server and Data Center owned by Atlassian, tracked as CVE-2023-22501. This vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate other users and gain remote access to...
Tech Time Warp: The first published reference to “vaporware”
We all know people who are long on ideas and short on execution. In the software world, one might say these people create “vaporware.” Let’s get into this week’s Tech Time Warp. This term was first used in a Feb....
ChatGPT: The AI-based chatbot system that everyone is talking about
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been an IT buzzword lately, and it’s no surprise. The benefits of AI include advancing our technology, improving business operations, and much more. Adoption of AI has more than doubled since 2017, and one recent AI...